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First impression of the true first edition. ***Near fine in dark-brown cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked. Tail of spine slightly creased but no other bumps or creases. Corners sharp. Top edge of page block lightly foxed. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. No foxing to interior pages. Pages clean. No creases or tears. ***In a very good colour illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £9.95 net. The dustwrapper is complete, with some creasing at the extremities, mainly at the top of the spine. Unusually, the light beige colour on the spine is unfaded. Dustwrapper bright. ***213 pages. 224mm x 140mm. ***'Stanley Middleton's new novel, "After a Fashion", tells the story of J. J .Harrington, an academic in his early thirties, of considerable authority, whose life, for all its apparent fulfilment, is flawed by emotional failure. He has been left by his actress wife, and has settled for a kind of success - esteem within his faculty, an excellent book or two, a handsome house, a refusal to involve himself deeply with other people. ***When his professor suggests that a young woman academic might benefit from his help, and at the same time both his former wife makes contact and Harrington meets Anne, his relatively unsophisticated neighbour, the stage is set for major changes in his life. but will he be able to respond to them?' ***'We need Stanley Middleton to remind us of what the novel is about.' -Ronald Blythe ***'At first glance, or even at second, Stanley Middleton's world is easily recognizable. His novels are set in the Midlands and his men and women are mostly drawn from the middle classes, schoolmasters, solicitors, businessmen, often with their roots in that older, chapel-going, confined culture described and fulminated against by Lawrence's visionaries and David Storey's uprooted painters. The excellence of art, for Middleton, is an exact vision of real things as they are. And because he is himself so exact an observer, his world at third glance can seem strange and disturbing or newly and brilliantly lit with colour.' - A. S. Byatt (Quote and review quotes taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***First impression of the true first edition, in near fine condition - with a slightly creased dustwrapper, with an unfaded spine. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
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